This file contains the following for the paper
"Remittances deteriorate governance", ReStat 2013
* Author: Faisal Z. Ahmed


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* A. REPLICATION FILES
* Replication data ("remitcorr.dta")
* Replication STATA do file ("remitcorr.do")

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* B. DATA DICTIONARY for all variables
Variable name/ Description
year                             Year 
pubsec                           Public sector compensation of employees (% of expense)
healthpriv                       Health expenditure, private (% GDP)
healthpub                        Health expenditure, public (% of GDP)
measle                           Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23 months)
school                           School enrollment, secondary (% gross)
transfers                        Subsidies and other transfers (% of expense)
contax              		 Taxes on goods and services (% revenue)
inctax                           Taxes on income, profits, and capital gains (% revenue)
cname                            Country name
pautoc                           POLITY Autocracy score
polity2                          POLITY2 score
xconst                		 Executive constraints index (XCONST)
muslim                           >=70% Muslim population
muslimoil                        Price of oil x Muslim country
lngdpcap                         ln(GDP per capita, constant 1995 US$)
lnpop                            ln(population)
insample             		 Sample for poor, non-oil producing countries
britcol              		 Dummy for former British colony
leg_british          		 Dummy for British legal origin
prot80               		 Protestants as % of population in 1980 (La Porta et al, 1999)
media_freedom                    Freedom House Media Freedom, 1 (Free), 2 (Partially Free), 3 (Not Free)
govtcode                         Government
remit_gdp                        Remittances (% GDP)
aid                              Foreign aid (% GDP)
ggdpcap                          Growth in GDP per capita, annual %
inf                              Inflation, % annual
gxrat                            Exchange rate, LCU per $ (annual % chg)
trade                            Exports and imports (% GDP)
remit_trade                      Remittances plus trade (% GDP)
remitpc                          Remittances per capita (2000 US$)
lnremitpc                        Log remittances per capita (2000 US$)
autoc                            Autocracy score (inverse of POLITY2)
autoc_remit                      Autocracy score x Remittances (% GDP)
autoc_remitpc                    Autocracy score x Remittances per capita
corruption                       Corruption, 6=Most corruption, 0=Least corrupt
lremit_gdp                       Remittances (% GDP), t-1
demonstration                    Anti-government demonstrations
lndmecca                         Log distance to Mecca
instrument                       Price oil x Muslim country's log distance to Mecca
linstrument                      Instrument, one year lag
lnremit                          Log remittances (2000 US$)
yearavg4                         Year, 4 yr avg
remit_gdp4                       Remittances (% GDP), 4 yr avg
instrument4                      Oil price x Log distance to Mecca, 4 yr avg
pautoc4                          POLITY autocracy, 4 yr avg
lngdpcap4                        Log GDP per capita, 4 yr avg
ggdpcap4                         Growth in GDP per capita (% annual), 4 yr avg
lnpop4                           Log population, 4 yr avg
corruption4                      Corruption, 4 yr avg
year_dum4                        Indicator for 4th year
remitpc4                         Remittances per capita, 4 yr avg
lnremitpc4                       Log remittances per capita, 4 yr avg
corruption84                     Corruption, 4 yr avg
corruption84_lndmecca            Corruption in 1984 x Log distance to Mecca
pautoc84        		 POLITY autocracy in 1984
pautoc84_lndmecca_autoc          POLITY autocracy in 1984 x Log distance to Mecca
pautoc84_remit  	         POLITY autocracy in 1984 x Remittances (% GDP)
corruption84_remit               Corruption in 1984 x Remittances (% GDP)
pautoc84_remitpc                 POLITY autocracy in 1984 x Remittances per capita
lngdpcap_lndmecca                Log GDP per capita x Log distance to Mecca
muslim_autoc                     Muslim country x POLITY autocracy
muslim_cw                        Muslim country x Cold War dummy
avgincome_year                   Average log GDP per capita x Year
chg_corruption                   Change in corruption from the previous year
dt_corruption                    Dummy variable for a change in corruption from previous year
dist_cat                         Distance category from Mecca (Miles)
samp                             Baseline estimating sample


* Fixed effects and differential trends
codummy*			Country fixed effects
ydummy*				Year dummies
year_ctry*      Year x Country fixed effect             
africa                         Africa dummy
asia                              Asia dummy
sam                               South America dummy
nam				North America dummy
europe				Europe dummy
meast				Middle East dummy
asia_yr         		Asia dummy x Year                  
nam_yr         			North America dummy x Year                  
sam_yr        	South America dummy x Year                  
africa_yr       Africa dummy x Year              
europe_yr       Europe dummy x Year              
meast_yr        Middle East dummy x Year              

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* C. Regressions estimated in Stata/SE 10.0

* D. DATA:
* Data enclosed in stata data file

* E. ORIGINAL DATA:
* Data is from World Development Indicators (World Bank), Freedom House, Political Risk Services (ICRG), and POLITY (Marshall and Jaggers) as described in * the text of the article.

* F. CODE:
* Do file is enclosed, remitcorr.do


